Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist - Hattersley Group Practice

Gtdhealthcare; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real living wage employer

Cycle to work scheme

NHS staff discounts

Employee assistance programme

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

gtd healthcare is seeking a Clinical Practice Based Prescribing Pharmacist to join Hattersley Group Practice and support medicines optimisation for 5,400 patients in a socioeconomically challenged area.

You will be part of a proactive clinical team, delivering safer prescribing, expert medicines advice, and flexible working between urgent care and primary care. The role includes comprehensive medication reviews and close collaboration with ICB/PCN teams.

Qualifications

• Experience as a clinical pharmacist in primary care or general practice.
• Ability to communicate complex information to patients and colleagues.
• Aptitude for clinical audits and improving prescribing practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide medicines optimisation to support GP prescribing and patient care.
• Collaborate with GP and other clinicians to deliver safe, effective medicines management.
• Lead on medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy and complex needs.
• Work with community and hospital pharmacy teams to improve outcomes and access to care.
• Develop innovative services or delivery modes to meet changing healthcare needs.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacist

Medicines optimisation

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

GPhC registration

Post-graduate diploma

Independent prescribing

Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership

Job description

gtd healthcare is one of the largest NHS commissioned Primary and Urgent care providers in North West England. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dedicated Clinical Practice Based Prescribing Pharmacist to join our practice team and provide care for our patients at Hattersley Group Practice

Hattersley Group Practice serves around 5,400 patients in a diverse community experiencing significant socioeconomic deprivation and health inequalities. Our relatively young population has a range of health and social needs. Joining our team offers an opportunity to make a real difference through compassionate, accessible and personalised care.

The ClinicalPharmacist will be part ofa busy and proactive team working alongside clinical and non-clinical colleagues to innovate and progress the clinical pharmacy service, enhancing patient care and outcomes.

The successful candidate will participate in and support the GP's medicines optimisation to deliver change for the benefit of patients and/or the organisation.

You will be a key member of the senior clinical team being proactive in providing safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice, while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in their care.

The working hours for this post are 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, working pattern to be agreed.

Main duties of the job

• Provide support to other clinicians with regards to prescription and medication queries/repeat prescriptions, and will demonstrate clinical reasoning and critical thinking, as well as the undertaking of comprehensive structured medication reviews and assessing/processing repeat prescription requests.
• Provide advice, care and medicines management for patients either via telephone/ video or face to face.
• Act as a positive role model supporting junior staff whist offering the ability to work flexibly between urgent care and primary care to provide safe, clinical and expert care.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
• Ensure that services integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
• Lead on the development of innovation bids, new services or a new mode of service delivery to meet the demands of the changing healthcare environment.

For further details, please refer to the job description attached.

About us

At gtd healthcare, we do things differently. Our not-for-profit ethos and commitment to innovation offers patients the best experience possible and a unique opportunity to transform services.

We are committed to developing and supporting our people to achieve their career aspirations while making a positive impact on patients and the wider community. Our values drive everything we do, with our people at the heart of delivering the best possible healthcare.

Benefits package

As an employee of gtd healthcare, you will be able to take advantage of our benefits package, including:

• working for a values-led organisation;
• Real living wage employer;
• supporter of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter;
• access to Stream, which provides flexible, on-demand access to stream your pay during the month;
• salary sacrifice car benefit scheme;
• 30 days annual leave, rising to 32 after five years of continuous service;
• flexible working hours and policies;
• family friendly and carer policies;
• opportunities to apply for innovation and quality awards;
• access to gtd healthcare wellbeing initiatives;
• opportunity to become part of an employee owned organisation;
• gtd healthcare social and fun activities;
• cycle to work scheme;
• NHS staff discounts, a free Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts;
• access to an employee assistance programme.

Job responsibilities

Collaborative Working Relationships

• Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.
• Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs and PCNs).
• Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team.
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
• Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.
• Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality.
• Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.
• Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB/PCN Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
• Liaises with ICB/PCN pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management / Optimisation to benefit from peer support.
• Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients, GP, nurses and other practice staff, other healthcare professionals including ICB pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc. Locality / GP prescribing lead, Locality managers, Community nurses and other allied health professionals, Community and hospital pharmacy teams and hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation.

Leadership

• Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
• Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
• Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices where appropriate.
• Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
• Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
• Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
• Undertake appropriate supervisor and assessor training, such as Greater Manchester Training Hub (GMTH) Standards for Supervision and Assessment (SSSA) or NHS Enabling Effective Learning Environments in order to act as a qualified assessor and supervisor for internal and external learners and trainees.

Management

• Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.
• Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
• Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve medicines related risk management issues according to policy/protocol, whilst understanding the process of escalation where appropriate.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to their own performance management.
• Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.

Research and Evaluation

• Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature to ensure evidence based medicines and best practice are followed.
• Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.
• Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.
• Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place.
• Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.

Other duties

• Any other duties, as agreed with the line manager to meet the needs of the organisation. This may include travel to other sites within the organisation.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working within primary care and/or general practice as a clinical pharmacist, with an understanding of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information and utilise data to improve clinical outcomes, including the review of medicine related incidents.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Able to undertake clinical audit and suggest changes of practice based on outcomes.

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Able to undertake clinical audit and suggest changes of practice based on outcomes.

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or equivalent).
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or equivalent).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.